Well, I'm more or less a programming language nerd and these kind of things just hurt =). Just try to pass a 'map' or a 'struct' to an other function. The 'map

Well, I'm more or less a programming language nerd and these kind of things just hurt =). Just try to pass a 'map' or a 'struct' to an other function. The 'map' behaves like passed by reference and the 'struct' behaves like passed by value. If you want to pass a 'struct' by reference than you have to use a pointer to a 'struct'. Seriously? What kind of ad hoc programming language design is this?